This is a poem with a strong message. I love the storytelling elements and the reminder that we should look beyond what is seemingly ugly or frightening in nature to appreciate the endeavour of all living things.

as always, fine photography, and the words you found for it make our own place in the cosmos change perspective--that is, are we allowed, more than intended, and what does that mean for beings like us who take ourselves and our webs so seriously. Of course, I'm sure the spider does the same...

I love how you've turned the whole thing around, to speculate upon the mercies we receive, whether we realize it or not. s i am walking my route, webs are the bane of my summertime existence. I am forever getting ticklers on my arms and legs. It's been worse this year because of the scads of canker worms dangling from the trees on their little filaments.

One idea that has stayed with me ever since i saw it somewhere, is that every creature wants its life just as much as we want our own. That insight has changed how I view just about everything, and you have brought it to life here. I also really liked the section about your son and how his attachment to the spider changed your view of it, because of your love for him.

I figure that if it's minding its own business then there is no need to eliminate the creature. In fact, for many years I had a spider who lived in my car. We coexisted just fine :) Nice connection between letting a spider live to the innate curiousity to wonder what invisible forces are at work as we go about our own business. Thank you for that analogy.

I loved the story here, Margaret. The ending was special (How benevolent the Beingthat watches over me?Often I think about how, in respect to our world and to the machines that we have made, how we are like ants to them when here in the hands of you and me...

Palm a poem as if fragile even if the words are bold. Let them sink into your skin as if moonlight, let them flow through your veins until they become ordinary - for only then will we know they nourished.

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"What should I say about your tendency to doubt your struggle or to harmonize your inner and outer life? My wish is ever strong that you find enough patience within you and enough simplicity to have faith. May you gain more and more trust in what is challenging, and confidence in the solitude you bear. Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right in any case." (Rainer Maria Rilke) Furnborg, Jonsered, Sweden, November 4, 1904 Letters to a Young Poet